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LayerNorm and RMSNorm impose fundamentally different geometric constraints on their outputs - and this difference has a precise, quantifiable consequence for model complexity. We prove that LayerNorm's mean-centering step, by confining data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sungbae Chun

Neural networks have recently become popular for a wide variety of uses, but have seen limited application in safety-critical domains such as robotics near and around humans. This is because it remains an open challenge to train a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Long Kiu Chung , Adam Dai , Derek Knowles , Shreyas Kousik , Grace X. Gao

For almost 70 years, researchers have typically selected the width of neural networks' layers either manually or through automated hyperparameter tuning methods such as grid search and, more recently, neural architecture search. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Federico Errica , Henrik Christiansen , Viktor Zaverkin , Mathias Niepert , Francesco Alesiani

Rectified linear units (ReLU) are well-known to be helpful in obtaining faster convergence and thus higher performance for many deep-learning-based applications. However, networks with ReLU tend to perform poorly when the number of filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Jae-Seok Choi , Munchurl Kim

Purpose: This work aims at developing a generalizable MRI reconstruction model in the meta-learning framework. The standard benchmarks in meta-learning are challenged by learning on diverse task distributions. The proposed network learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Wanyu Bian , Yunmei Chen , Xiaojing Ye , Qingchao Zhang

We consider the computational complexity of training depth-2 neural networks composed of rectified linear units (ReLUs). We show that, even for the case of a single ReLU, finding a set of weights that minimizes the squared error (even…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Pasin Manurangsi , Daniel Reichman

We describe a novel family of models of multi- layer feedforward neural networks in which the activation functions are encoded via penalties in the training problem. Our approach is based on representing a non-decreasing activation function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Armin Askari , Geoffrey Negiar , Rajiv Sambharya , Laurent El Ghaoui

Recently, there have been numerous studies on feature learning with neural networks, specifically on learning single- and multi-index models where the target is a function of a low-dimensional projection of the input. Prior works have shown…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-28 Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini , Adel Javanmard , Murat A. Erdogdu

Batch-normalization (BN) layers are thought to be an integrally important layer type in today's state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural networks for computer vision tasks such as classification and detection. However, BN layers introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Mark D. McDonnell , Hesham Mostafa , Runchun Wang , Andre van Schaik

At present, designing convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures requires both human expertise and labor. New architectures are handcrafted by careful experimentation or modified from a handful of existing networks. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Bowen Baker , Otkrist Gupta , Nikhil Naik , Ramesh Raskar

Compressing neural networks without retraining is vital for deployment at scale. We study calibration-free compression through the lens of projection geometry: structured pruning is an axis-aligned projection, whereas model folding performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Olga Saukh , Dong Wang , Haris Šikić , Yun Cheng , Lothar Thiele

Most neural network pruning methods, such as filter-level and layer-level prunings, prune the network model along one dimension (depth, width, or resolution) solely to meet a computational budget. However, such a pruning policy often leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Wenxiao Wang , Minghao Chen , Shuai Zhao , Long Chen , Jinming Hu , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

Over the last decade of machine learning, convolutional neural networks have been the most striking successes for feature extraction of rich sensory and high-dimensional data. While learning data representations via convolutions is already…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Christoph Angermann , Markus Haltmeier

In this paper, we study norm-based regularization methods for neural networks. We compare existing penalization approaches and introduce two regularization strategies that extend classical ridge- and lasso-type penalties to neural network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-04 Muhammad Qasim , Farrukh Javed

We study multigrade deep learning (MGDL) as a principled framework for structured error refinement in deep neural networks. While the approximation power of neural networks is now relatively well understood, training very deep architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Shijun Zhang , Zuowei Shen , Yuesheng Xu

Neural network training is usually accomplished by solving a non-convex optimization problem using stochastic gradient descent. Although one optimizes over the networks parameters, the main loss function generally only depends on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Julius Berner , Dennis Elbrächter , Philipp Grohs

We provide a function space characterization of the inductive bias resulting from minimizing the $\ell_2$ norm of the weights in multi-channel convolutional neural networks with linear activations and empirically test our resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Meena Jagadeesan , Ilya Razenshteyn , Suriya Gunasekar

In this work, we propose a new training method for finding minimum weight norm solutions in over-parameterized neural networks (NNs). This method seeks to improve training speed and generalization performance by framing NN training as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-22 Yamini Bansal , Madhu Advani , David D Cox , Andrew M Saxe

With the advancement of deep learning, reducing computational complexity and memory consumption has become a critical challenge, and ternary neural networks (NNs) that restrict parameters to $\{-1, 0, +1\}$ have attracted attention as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yuta Nakahara , Manabu Kobayashi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

In this paper we propose a method to generate suitably refined finite element meshes using neural networks. As a model problem we consider a linear elasticity problem on a planar domain (possibly with holes) having a polygonal boundary. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Chiu Ling Chan , Felix Scholz , Thomas Takacs